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Reporting and Analyzing Student Behavior in 3D Virtual Worlds

Authors:
Aliane Loureiro Krassmann
Felipe Becker Nunes
Tito Armando Rossi Filho
Liane Margarida Rockenbach Tarouco
Magda Bercht

Keywords: virtual worlds; heads up display; student interaction

Abstract:
Virtual Worlds are open 3D environments capable of simulating a variety of educational practices, thus reducing risks and costs with physical laboratories. However, its freedom characteristic can cause dispersion and make it difficult to navigate and focus. Aiming at improving user navigation, this paper analyzes a Heads Up Display (HUD) solution that keeps sensing the locations visited by the user, and presents it in the form of a “heat map”. The main contribution has two sides: 1) a reporting system is presented, which allows teachers to easily keep up with students’ behavior in the environment; 2) an analysis of experimental data has been performed, focusing on the extent and intensity of content observation, with the purpose of presenting the potential of the HUD to act as a guidance tool in educational Virtual Worlds.

Pages: 81 to 90

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2018. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 30, 2018

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2679